Remembering in tool-use tasks in children and apes: The role of the information at encoding

Memory

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 129-144

  Martin Ordas, Gema ^a,b,c   Atance, Cristina M ^b   Call, Josep ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Great apes; Memory; Problem solving; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY; ORANG UTAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOOL USE;

ANIMALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84891344558     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2013.806553     Document Type: Article

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